Superhero comics are fantasy. Pretty wild fantasy, sometimes, but as fantasy they depend on one thing: you must buy the bit. You must accept that super powers are real. You must accept that wearing a costume is a perfectly rational thing to do when fighting crime or alien invaders. You must accept that the same people are going to be having these adventures month after month. You must accept that they don’t age like we do.

And if you look at Galactus and think “dorky helmet”, it’s time to move on.

Denny (O'Neil) was fond of saying "We don't ask why the Batmobile doesn't get caught in traffic." That is apparently the corollary to the Archie Goodwin saying about how the entire DC Universe is an inverted pyramid built on a secret identity that's a pair of glasses. If you want to tear it apart, you can do so with ease. You're not nearly as clever or smart as you think you are if you decide to go and nitpick it and tear it down, because there are loose threads everywhere. All that proves is that you're a killjoy. [Laughs] If you want to take it apart, it's very easy to do, but that's not the point. You either accept the world you're in or you don't. If you do, you're going to have a blast. If you don't, you better find something else to read, because you're going to be very unhappy.

I came to the conclusion that uniforms are not just clothes, but the visual representation of those characters. Batman is not Bruce Wayne dressed as Batman, he simply is Batman, as presented on the page. You gotta accept how they're dressed because this is who (and how) they are! In comics, at least. Movies are different. And worse (for superheroes).

One of the aspects that I complain about current comics is that the civilian has lost the sense of awe that comes from having super powered beings in their universe. Instead they're viewed as celebrities where regular people know a characters backstory. It tends to be worse with Marvel and I think that's mainly a by-product of the "Rock Star" writers of the early 2000s. An otherwise good Marvels Snapshot Fantostic Four issue the other day had a line about Johnny Storm being "...a guy who helps stop a giant dude in a skirt from eating your planet...".

It took me a few years, but I came to realize that the point at which you should stop reading superhero comic books is when you stop enjoying them. It's just unhealthy to keep reading them if you don't like them any longer, and you're either waiting (and waiting and waiting) for them to get "good" again, or you're badgering creators on social media about how much you think their work sucks.

Many, many decades ago, I likely would have said you should stop reading comicbooks around 13 years old. But that was when the next generation of readers still mattered (and existed in the millions) and comics were widely available to pick up right off a rack or a stand.

But either yesterday or today, I agree with JB and others here that you should drop the hobby when you can no longer accept its "rules."